Posted on 11/09/2005 2:11:49 PM PST by MAKnight
Good day Mr. President,
With all due respect, sir, what in the name of the Almighty is wrong with you?
And when I ask you this question I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority of those people who walked the precincts, sent down the checks, who cheered loudest when the Ohio results came in last year in November. I am talking about your supporters. Those of us who have and most likely will continue to stick by you until the day you finally return to Crawford three years from now.
We are the ones who have kept your poll numbers up when everyone else expected and hoped for them to go down. We are the ones who have remained your staunchest supporters even as the world mocked and insulted you. More importantly, We are the ones who got you elected, re-elected and provided you with majorities in both Houses of Congress, not just once, but twice.
We are the ones who hope and pray that you succeed.
So, again, with all due respect Mr. President, listen and take heed; we're tired. We're sick and tired.
We're sick and tired of seeing your poll numbers descending into the twenties. We're sick and tired of watching attacks by the other side and their Press allies on your Administration being met with only impotent and cowering silence. We're sick and tired of reading far better arguments on behalf of your own policies from the keyboards of anonymous posters on a myriad of websites than we hear from the mouths of your Administration's spokesmen (and this includes you). We're sick and tired of watching so many good men and women being slandered by the Democrats and their Press allies simply for being your nominees, without your Administration standing up to defend their honor. We're sick and tired of watching your administration compromising on the principles that got you elected, avoiding necessary confrontations, refusing to criticize even the harshest and most mendacious of your opponents, all in order to pander to an audience that hates you beyond the scope of reason.
And at the end of it all, what does your administration have to show for it? A torrent of anger, hate, lies and attacks from the other side and the Press that cannot have been any more than what you would have gotten if you had gone all out for a truly Reaganite Republican agenda and defended yourself and your administration, instead of listening to so-called "moderates/centrist" demands that you triangulate and turn the other cheek. Your continued dedication to cowering from your opponents in order to enamor yourself to the Left (or the so-called "Center") has only yielded continuously declining poll numbers for your administration and disastrous portents for your party's future as the majority party in Congress.
For goodness sake, why is it not yet obvious to you, Mr. President, that this dogged adherence to this "new tone" fantasy is actively harming you and your party? How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag? When, in the name all that is holy, are you going to start fighting back?! You are being overtly accused of deliberately sacrificing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq for personal gain by the Senate Democrat Leader and his Press allies, and yet you remain silent!
Why should I, or anybody else, continue to fight for someone who lacks the fortitude to defend his own honor and principles? Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?
Mr. President, once again with all due respect, I implore you, stand up and fight. You were not elected to get along with Democrats or to make them like you. You were not elected to just get "things" done, but to get the "right things" done. You were elected because the American people trusted you more than the other guy to know what those "right things" are. Stand fast and fight back. Not just because you owe it to yourself, but, more importantly, because you owe it to your party, which made you their standard bearer and do not deserve to be dragged down along with you. Because you owe it to us, your supporters. Even more, you owe it to the soldiers fighting in Iraq, because you sent them there and yet they still gave you over 70% of their votes last year. And, finally, you owe it to the country, which looks to you for leadership, which needs to know that you did not send the best of its sons and daughters to die in vain.
Stand up and fight.
That is all.
Sincerely Yours
MartinAKnight
Amen!
!DANGER!Avert your eyes- focusing on reality- can cause blinding headaches, hearing deficits, limb numbness and paralysis of the head bone. If at all possible move your blinders to a full frontal position and whistle loudly- while the adults are talking...
Big time cave-in and it's been downhill ever since.
"And the evidence of this is?"
The collective and instant trashing of Roberts, Miers, and Alito comes to mind.
"They could always make plenty of money ripping into the Democrats, like they normally do."
They found out that whining about the Dems is marginal, becaused the Dems are themselves marginal. Whining about the GOP gets FReepers with 1-digit IQs (and I'm being REAL generous) to read their books and columns, listen to their shows, and generally send them money.
The game in Iraq is this. Bush goes out and makes excellent speeches in defense of the war. The Dems continue to get hysterical and wild and try to undermine it. Despite getting a free ride in the press, they won't succeed. Why, you may ask?
Because GWB is the CIC and commands the military, which continue to do a great job and are pushing Iraq towards self sufficiency. Pretty soon, I'd say 9 months from now, Iraq will be as successful as Afghanistan, and the press won't be able to report the "bad news" on the front pages, so they will ignore it. The public will realize that we are succeeding, and the dems will be on record with the most outrageous, anti-american, anti-war rhetoric (which they have been providing on a daily basis). And Bush will hang them with it in November 2006. It does no good for GW to refute the ridiculous ranting of Reid and Pelosi now. That is for the GOP congresscritters and the conservative press to do.
Bush will stay above the fray until it counts. Right now, it does not count. September of 2006, it will. And his message will be fresh and he can point to the sucesses in Iraq and play the role of the Little Red Hen. The baking bread will not be shared by the traitor party.
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Good post
I gotta gree with pissant. Seeing the dems on the news last night, it looked to me like they were WAY over the top in their BLATANT lies. They think it's working for them, so they are getting even more outrageous. I think W is just waiting until the lies are so outrageous no thinking American will be able to defend the libs' positions.
Well at this point, will be sitting at our keyboards in 2008 wondering how the hell hitlery became president.
That's the point, RUSH jr.
Bad things happen in August. Perhaps next year he might reconsider the length of time he stays in Crawford? Maybe take 2 1/2 weeks at a time?
Laura Ingraham was great this morning, doing what the administration should be doing: backing up our boys and girls fighting the WOT.
You know better than that. None of the sources I mentioned are hurting for an audience... and they respect Bush as much as FReepers do.
Mind if I borrow that?
As for the original post, some I agree with, some I don't. the line about the kids sent to War struck me as off. However, the gist is that people want the administration to fight back.
I realize some folks will take any opportunity to bash the President. I realize some folks think defense of him in any and all circumstance is necessary and noble because he has so many disadvantages including the MSM. It feels wrong to join in any chorus of discontent.
But I also think some folks on this board have got to face reality. Many people that love this President, respect him, defended him five long years through highs and lows, cheered him, have prayed for him...are not being critical for the sake of it. We're not being critical because we want to take advantage of a low ebb. We're being critical because we sense something we never have before. That the fight is gone. He's off course, and if not corrected, he'll hit that iceberg up ahead.
That was in part what the fuss over Miers concerned. Saving him from himself. He NEEDS to start fighting back. Against Dems, against the RINO's, against the MSM, against the CIA and all trying to sabotage him and this country's well being. I want my President back, I miss him. And if being vocal gets that Texan back on his feet so be it. He listened about Miers, and I'm praying he'll listen now. It's time to Fight back Mr. President. No hold barred.
Circular logic.
They found out that whining about the Dems is marginal, becaused the Dems are themselves marginal.
LOL! Is that why Bush felt the need to nominate a stealth candidate for the court?
You of all people should be frustrated by his lack of fortitude against these communist rats.
Our "soldiers will have died in vain" if Democrats regain power?
Thanks, pissant, I really really hope you're right.
Good post--I agree with you (and bet a lot of people who read your post do, too).
The past couple of months have not been good for the President (one disaster after another, for example) and I'm not sure why there hasn't been a more aggressive response to the attacks.
Maybe we all need to really start praying for him, even harder.
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